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                          PUBLIC FORUM

                     Thursday November 16th

                Public Education in District #42

                     OUR KIDS CAN DO BETTER!
                 WE CAN DO BETTER FOR OUR KIDS!

Guest Speaker:    Neil Godin
     Neil Godin is president of Neil Godin International Inc., a firm
specializing in a wide range of human resource and economic development
training activities throughout Canada and the U.S.
     Mr. Godin is a professional speaker and he has addressed more than
300,000 business people from Los Angeles, CA to St. Johns, Newfoundland.
As a hands-on economic development project leader, he has worked with
dozens of communities ranging from Sudbury, Ontario to Gold River, B.C.- on
every facet of community- based economic development and diversification,
including conducting workshops with groups of employment disadvantaged
people on creative strategies for finding and creating meaningful work.Mr.
Godin has conducted workshops for the University of Waterloo Economic
Development Professional Program and is co-author of a handbook for
professionals in the field.
     Mr. Godin is on the board of directors of NETWERCC (The Association for
Networking, Education and Training for Workers in Employment, Rehabilitation
and Career Counselling in Greater Vancouver), and the Aspire Integrative
Remedial Education Society, as well as founding the Canadian Association
for Change in Education.

THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR QUESTIONS AND OPEN
DISCUSSION.

*School District #42 has below average results on the provincial exams in
Mathematics and Sciences at the grade 12 level.

*10% of Grade 11 students in this district drop out of school and do not re-
enroll elsewhere in B.C.  7% of Grade 12 students drop out.

*20% of Grade 12 students in this province, as reported this summer by the
Ministry of Education, write at a grade 4 level.

*The unemployment rate for young people is 20%.

*Statistics Canada figures show that a net 1.3 million jobs have been
CREATED in the last five years and they all require post secondary
education or training, In contrast, there has been a net DROP of 800,000
jobs available to applicants with minimal qualifications.

THOMAS HANEY CENTRE AT 7:30pm     Open to All
Sponsored by: Parents for Schools of Choice (467-7198 or 467-3796)